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Election 2017: Tories to be largest party - exit poll

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[h=1]Election 2017: Tories to be largest party - exit poll[/h]
Election 2017: Tories to be largest party - exit poll - BBC News

The Tories will be the largest party but may not have a majority, according to the UK general election exit poll.

The survey taken at polling stations across the UK suggests the Tories could get 314 MPs when all the results have been counted in Thursday's election.

Labour would get 266, the Lib Dems 14, UKIP none and the SNP 34, the NOP/Ipsos MORI poll for BBC/ITV/Sky suggests.
The first election results are due before midnight with the final result expected by Friday lunchtime.
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The first exit polls of the UK General Election suggest that although the Conservatives will remain the largest party, they will lose their parliamentary majority and possibly lose power. Exit polls in recent years have prove fairly accurate, but they are still only polls and the actual results are a few hours away yet.

If they prove accurate this will be the most extraordinary turnaround in UK politics for decades.

PM Theresa May called the election with a 20%+ advantage over the Labour opposition led by left-wing firebrand Jeremy Corbyn.

Here's a thread for discussing the election exit poll and actual results. Have at it DP election junkies!


 
I blame Bush.. no wait.. wrong year and country.

Good thing I bought Red Bull... gonna be a long night!
 
Andalublue said:
[h=1]Election 2017: Tories to be largest party - exit poll[/h]
Election 2017: Tories to be largest party - exit poll - BBC News


The first exit polls of the UK General Election suggest that although the Conservatives will remain the largest party, they will lose their parliamentary majority and possibly lose power. Exit polls in recent years have prove fairly accurate, but they are still only polls and the actual results are a few hours away yet.

If they prove accurate this will be the most extraordinary turnaround in UK politics for decades.

PM Theresa May called the election with a 20%+ advantage over the Labour opposition led by left-wing firebrand Jeremy Corbyn.

Here's a thread for discussing the election exit poll and actual results. Have at it DP election junkies!
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If the result is anything like that the main take away is that this world is fast becoming too unstable to manage.

I hope everyone has their Depression Plan ready.
 
Andalublue said:
[h=1]Election 2017: Tories to be largest party - exit poll[/h]
Election 2017: Tories to be largest party - exit poll - BBC News


The first exit polls of the UK General Election suggest that although the Conservatives will remain the largest party, they will lose their parliamentary majority and possibly lose power. Exit polls in recent years have prove fairly accurate, but they are still only polls and the actual results are a few hours away yet.

If they prove accurate this will be the most extraordinary turnaround in UK politics for decades.

PM Theresa May called the election with a 20%+ advantage over the Labour opposition led by left-wing firebrand Jeremy Corbyn.

Here's a thread for discussing the election exit poll and actual results. Have at it DP election junkies!
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May was supposed to have a walk over of Labor- the problem the Cons had was how she conducted herself during the campaign.
The knives will be out as she blew a massive lead and failed.
people do not trust nor like her.
Money on her resigning is??
 
JANFU said:
May was supposed to have a walk over of Labor- the problem the Cons had was how she conducted herself during the campaign.
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I expect this to be narrative a lot of people will push. Of course it ignores that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has offered a very, very different political direction for the country that a lot of people, especially the younger voters, find attractive. Think how the US Presidential election might have looked if Bernie Sanders had won the Dem nomination.
The knives will be out as she blew a massive lead and failed.
people do not trust nor like her.
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That's true. She's fought a dreadful campaign. She's tried to make it presidential in style, believing she had a huge personal appeal. She didn't, and refusing to debate, taking on only the softest of interviews, sidelining her front-bench colleagues and flip-flopping on numerous issues has shown her to be a bit amateurish. She ditched Lynton Crosby's 'Strong and stable' mantra when too many people turned it into 'Weak and wobbly'. Bad, bad campaign, even if the exit poll is very wrong and she does actually squeak an overall majority.

Money on her resigning is??
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Unlikely. The Tories don't have an alternative leader-in-waiting and a leadership challenge would throw them into civil war. This result really could completely eff up the Brexit negotiations. Could be utter disaster for the UK economy, and I noticed that the pound is in free-fall on the 24-hour currency market.
 
JANFU said:
May was supposed to have a walk over of Labor- the problem the Cons had was how she conducted herself during the campaign.
The knives will be out as she blew a massive lead and failed.
people do not trust nor like her.
Money on her resigning is??
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I don't know who told her not attending debates and doing as few media appearances as possible was a good idea, but that person certainly should resign as well.
 
The English pound is dropping like a rock.
 
PeteEU said:
I blame Bush.. no wait.. wrong year and country.

Good thing I bought Red Bull... gonna be a long night!
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I'm impressed that you folks 'over there' HAVE Red Bull. :)
 
It wasn't just may. The conservative manifesto was littered with trash, the worst manifesto in history. All they had to do was make it about Brexit and they would have won +20
 
Andalublue said:
Red Bull was invented in Thailand and is owned and manufactured in Austria. Why wouldn't we have it? :)
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Actually not exactly true... the company stole the idea in Thailand and changed it slightly and then made it. You can still get the original over in Asia.
 
"May has scored own goal of the season," - Gary Lineker.
 
DarkWizard12 said:
It wasn't just may. The conservative manifesto was littered with trash, the worst manifesto in history. All they had to do was make it about Brexit and they would have won +20
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They didn't even win Brexit with +20.

You sure there, bud?
 
Andalublue said:
Red Bull was invented in Thailand and is owned and manufactured in Austria. Why wouldn't we have it? :)
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You're probably right. It's just the health food nuts are trying to get it banned or restricted over here and I thought somebody--France?--and maybe some other EU countries had already done that? It isn't that there is anything dangerous in it, as I understand it--I've never had any--but too much sugar and caffeine or some such for kids.

Anyhow, that's as good a thing as any to blame for U.K. politics to be getting as strange as ours. :)
 
AlbqOwl said:
You're probably right. It's just the health food nuts are trying to get it banned or restricted over here and I thought somebody--France?--and maybe some other EU countries had already done that? It isn't that there is anything dangerous in it, as I understand it--I've never had any--but too much sugar and caffeine or some such for kids.
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Horrible stuff. If you're going to keep marijuana illegal you should consider outlawing this stuff.

Anyhow, that's as good a thing as any to blame for U.K. politics to be getting as strange as ours. :)
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Strange? I don't think so. It's the UK coming to its senses, IMHO. Sense returns to the British electorate.
 
AlbqOwl said:
You're probably right. It's just the health food nuts are trying to get it banned or restricted over here and I thought somebody--France?--and maybe some other EU countries had already done that? It isn't that there is anything dangerous in it, as I understand it--I've never had any--but too much sugar and caffeine or some such for kids.

Anyhow, that's as good a thing as any to blame for U.K. politics to be getting as strange as ours. :)
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Red bull is just caffiene and things that act just like caffiene, all at very high levels. Now th original red bull and other energy drinks like sobe energy rush that had ephedra, man that stuff would kill you but did they ever keep you awake. The stuff in the past was damn near a legal workaround for meth, the new stuff tries to mimic the energy levels, but ephedra was dangerous and a precurser to meth and super high levels of caffiene and taurine are really not any safer.
 
Andalublue said:
Horrible stuff. If you're going to keep marijuana illegal you should consider outlawing this stuff.



Strange? I don't think so. It's the UK coming to its senses, IMHO. Sense returns to the British electorate.
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In Texas, we use Red Bull to make Jeager bombs. Jeagermeister and Red Bull. LOL.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Labours strength in the North is astounding...
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Aren't Cons hanging close with their gains from SNP combined with NI?

I like the blocks used for each seat by the guardian. That would be an improvement over the way we show our house next year .
 
Andalublue said:
[h=1]Election 2017: Tories to be largest party - exit poll[/h]
Election 2017: Tories to be largest party - exit poll - BBC News


The first exit polls of the UK General Election suggest that although the Conservatives will remain the largest party, they will lose their parliamentary majority and possibly lose power. Exit polls in recent years have prove fairly accurate, but they are still only polls and the actual results are a few hours away yet.

If they prove accurate this will be the most extraordinary turnaround in UK politics for decades.

PM Theresa May called the election with a 20%+ advantage over the Labour opposition led by left-wing firebrand Jeremy Corbyn.

Here's a thread for discussing the election exit poll and actual results. Have at it DP election junkies!
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Wow... Theresa called that snap election with all kinds of confidence in gaining support. Man is she getting her ass handed to her.

 
AlbqOwl said:
I'm impressed that you folks 'over there' HAVE Red Bull. :)
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I'm impressed that they have more than just two parties to choose from.
 
Looking like that majority will be out of her grasp. The people have spoken now please step down May you were never voted in.
 
Higgins86 said:
Looking like that majority will be out of her grasp. The people have spoken now please step down May you were never voted in.
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To be fair though her stepping down would propel some other person who wasn't voted in either.

Jesus who's going to take her place... Johnson?

Much as I'm no fan of the Conservatives let's not let that be a possibility in the coming days.
 
NIMBY said:
Aren't Cons hanging close with their gains from SNP combined with NI?

I like the blocks used for each seat by the guardian. That would be an improvement over the way we show our house next year .
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From the looks of those blocks on the guardian, it looks like SNP and LD is alinged with Labor against the cons.
 
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